Stocker's encounter set off a firestorm of activity on social media, and inspired other young women at her school to put on their shorts, too.įellow BHS student Lauren Paquay, 15, showed up to school wearing shorts today. "It's being made to look like a lot of the male students and male teachers in the school have that problem, which is completely unfair to them, as well," Davison said. Nothing's showing that shouldn't be showing," said Makayla King's mother, Julia Davison, of the shorts she helped pick out.ĭavison said the reason for the rule offered by the school was that the shorts would be too much of a distraction for the male students and teachers at the school. "Her shorts are modest, they're normal length, they're not ripped, they're not torn, they're not too low on the waist. In mid-May, a Truro, N.S., teenage girl was disciplined after her shorts were deemed too short by school administrators. Last week Tallie Doyle, a Grade 8 student in Ottawa, was told to cover up after attending school wearing a tank top that exposed her bra straps.
In the past month, similar run-ins between students and school administrators have been cropping up elsewhere in Canada.Įarlier this week, about 30 students at Menihek High School in Labrador City, N.L., were sent home because of attire deemed to have violated the school's dress code - including wearing sleeveless shirts and having bra straps exposed. Julia Davison says she helped pick these shorts out for her daughter, Makayla King, and does not believe they're inappropriate for school. “You have to abide by the rule of your employer, society in general,” she said. She added that once the students move into the workforce, they may need to abide by an employer's dress codes. Stein Day said the rules at BHS aren’t that strict, considering there is no uniform. “The boys can’t run around with their belt buckle low on their bottoms so they have their underwear showing,” she said. Stein Day said that the rules apply to both boys and girls. Pearson School Board chairwoman Suanne Stein Day told CBC's Daybreak Friday.
She was suspended for one day for a variety of infractions, Lester B. Within minutes, the posters were taken down and she was in the principal’s office. Instead of shaming girls for their bodies, teach boys that girls are not sexual objects” and posted them around the school. Stocker left the classroom and printed off about 20 posters inspired by an image on Tumblr that read: “Don’t humiliate her because she is wearing shorts. They just kind of target the girls first." "They should approach it in a way that doesn’t target girls at least - for starters - because that’s the first problem.
#TEENS GIRLS INSHORT SHORTS CODE#
I felt very attacked … and I wanted to tell them how I felt," Stocker said, adding that many of the rules in the dress code appear to specifically target girls. " When I started explaining why I didn’t understand that rule, they didn’t really want to hear anything I had to say, and it was in front of my entire class. She said the way school officials address dress code violations is often 'humiliating.' (CBC) Lauren Paquay, 15, wore shorts to school at Beaconsfield High School in solidarity with her fellow student Lindsey Stocker.
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